My Place is up for Sale
I’ve decided to put my place up for sale after getting it appraised a few weeks ago. If you or anyone you know is interested let me know. It’s sad to see it go since it’s been a dream place to have but I’m moving on to San Francisco at the end of January. Check it out here (it will also be up on Craigslist, in the paper and a few other places).
Description
This 860 square foot unit was bought 3-years ago when the building was being renovated from apartments to condos. RiverWest is an all condo building with 75% of owners occupying their units making it a nice friendly community where you can get to know you’re neighbors. The entire building was renovated 3-years ago and the lobby now has a fountain, gourmet kitchen and living room equipped with a Plasma TV that can be used for hosting your large gatherings. Additionally a 2nd social room on the 1st floor was added with a pool table and plasma TV as well. The fitness center has a full weight room, ellipticals and tread mills with personal LCD TV’s on each of the aerobic units. Outside on the 1st floor is a pool with a skyline view of the city as well as a gas fire place and grills for hosting barbecues. Just inside by the pool you would have access to a sauna and jacuzzi along with locker rooms. The actual unit overlooks the Mississippi river with a view of both the 3rd avenue bridge and Stone Arch bridge. To see a picture of the view from the balcony check out the panoramic photo which was shot from standing on the units balcony. The unit was planned and decorated by Dwelling Designs, a local interior design firm that decorated the common areas as well. The space has dark hard wood floors in the kitchen and living room with carpet in the bedroom. Large breakfast island in the center of the kitchen, slate tile in the bathroom, black granite counter tops throughout, stainless steel GE appliances, and a in-unit washer and dryer.
Amazon MP3 Store
I’ve bought music online before plenty of times. Pearl Jam live albums, rarities, digital only compilations, things like that. But today for the first time I bought a legit normal full length album from Amazon instead of going to Best Buy to get the physical CD. I have a slightly embarassing obsession with the Killers for awhile and their new album is full of ridiculous 80’s synth pop goodness. I was pleasantly surprised at how well Amazon worked. The album cost $3.99 (for 10 songs), the MP3’s are variable bit rate 256k with no DRM and the little program thingie automatically added them to iTunes and started playing after 1 click on the website. I’m still hesitant to buy through iTunes with all the DRM garbage and I feel like Apple already owns enough of my soul but for $4 I can definitely get use to this. I especially enjoy that you can stream pieces of all the songs right before clicking on buy which has gave me second thoughts about buying the new Kanye - what is with all the singing? Lame.
Mac Apps
It seems like a lot more people are getting Mac’s theses days (Pat just got one and Paul from work just got a new one…even my Mom has a temporary one for editing her book). So for fun I thought I’d list a bunch of applications I’ve come to love. I used a Mac for web design all through college but I didn’t switch my primary computer at home to one until a year and a half ago and now I have one at work as well. Most of the applications are free so a quick search should bring them up if you want to download. Anything killer I’m missing?
In the dock:
- Cyberduck (free FTP client)
- Firefox (browser, duh)
- Mail.app (use it occisionally just to download Gmail for offline use/backup)
- Entourage (work email)
- Adium (by far the best chat client)
- iCal (i mainly keep that there so I know the date since i use entourage for a calendar)
- iTunes
- ProTools (for the nowlikephotograph podcast)